#quality

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight ↗

— Kathryn Lasky

#equality

Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told. ↗

— Chrétien de Troyes

#romance #equality

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#politics #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #equality

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#equality

True friendship can exist only between equals. ↗

— Plato

#friendship #equality

Assuming that all things are equal, Who'd want to be men of the people, When there's people like you? ↗

— Arctic Monkeys

#teddy-picker #equality

No man is above the law, and no man is below it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#equality #equality

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between. (an early comment on backlash, from "Glossary for the Eighties") ↗

— Ellen Willis

#politics #equality

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#equality

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#poetic #poetry #prose #writers #equality